just received an urgent message from Castro that a U.S. attack on Cuba was “almost imminent,”[107] he hastened to respond: “We could see that we had to reorient our position swiftly . . . We sent the Americans a note saying that we agreed to remove our missiles and bombers on the condition that the President give us his assurance that there would be no invasion of Cuba by the forces of the United States or anybody else.”[108]
